Chapter 215

Andrey

“Audrey You’re going to wear a hole in the carpet.”

I frore in the midst of my frantic pacing and stared down at my aching feet. Edwin was right; I hadn’t stopped moving since we got here this morning.

Since Judge Fuller had called an emergency meeting with Daniels and Black.

“I can’t help it.” I said, starting to walk again. “What if they don’t believe me? What if Black somehow convinces them that I’m lying? Again?”

My mate watched me from where he leaned against the wall, hands tucked into his pockets. We’d been out here ..ke this all morning, waiting for some kind of answer in regards to my thesis-and Mr. Black.

“Audrey-

They’ve been in there for way too long,” I interrupted, not stopping my pacing this time. “It’s not a good sign. Not good at all”

With a sigh, Edwin pushed off the wall and caught me by the shoulders, halting my frantic movement. He turned me to face him and leveled me with a steady gaze. “Hey. Just try to breathe.

sucked in a deep breath of air, meeting my mate’s eyes. Normally, that stormy gray color would calm me immediately. But not today. Today, the only thing that could soothe my frayed nerves was an answer.

Edwin’s lips tugged upwards in one corner. “You have to let the breath out, too, Audrey.”

Right; I’d been holding my breath. But before I could let it out, raised voices suddenly erupted from behind the closed door. Edwin and I both whirled to face it, his hand tightening on my shoulder.

“You should all be ashamed of yourselves!” we heard an irate Mr. Black bellow from behind the closed door. “Believing some good-for-nothing kid over an esteemed member of our community…”

“The evidence is clear, Mr. Black! Kindly see yourself out before=”

“Oh, don’t worry. I’ll see myself out, alright.”

Suddenly, the door flew open so hard that it banged on the wall behind it, and Mr. Black stormed out, his face red with fury. His eyes landed on me, narrowing dangerously as he took quick strides straight for me. “There you are, you little-“.

Before Mr. Black could reach me, Edwin stepped forward, placing himself between Black and me. He let out a low growl and held out an arm to shield me. “Watch yourself, Black.”

glared at Edwin. After a moment, he cursed under his breath and stormed off down the hallway, grumbling something I

wondering what that could mean, but before I could dwell

in,” he said,

their faces solemn. Fuller gestured to one of the empty chairs and I sat, Edwin hovering near the door in case Black

began, “we’ve reconsidered your

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full of regret. We are so torry this happened to you, Audrey We looked into the matter, and your faims fired up with our own

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to what did, we found security footage from campus that was.. **ing Tie waren slipping into an empty cleurons after youre thesis presentation,

ing a phone call

the call” Danich added, “we found that it went somewhere in Coldclaw. Alt ch we weren’t able to trace #further, it’s concerning enough as it is; and combined with the evidence you gave us, we decided that Mr. Black wasn’t the most trustworthy candidate for

widened, and I turned to look at Edwin.

was put up to this by someone in Coldclaw We’ll

apologize profusely for the upset. We never should have believed a man like Black over a Grayspring student, especially one such

from everything. “Can you promise that something

going to be looking

in surprise.

who have been teaching for many years may not remember the struggle of presenting their thesis,

more beneficial to the students who are presenting to have a judge who

“every year, a recent Grayspring alumni will be able to be on

hoped for-a chance

that brings us to our next point,” Daniels continued, smiling. “We would like to know… would you like to be the first alumni to do

My jaw dropped. “Me?”

“It’s the least we can do after this awful experience

bond. Before I could even think about it, I was

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